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Bouquets and Barbed Wire

Orlando Figes's Just Send Me the Word conveys the enduring love of a couple whose incarceration in Stalin's gulags couldn't suppress

April 24, 2012

Books·Communism·History

A Light Shining From Babylon

Will today’s scientists hunting the Higgs boson prove as ingenious as the ancient Mesopotamians?

April 24, 2012

Cosmos·History·Science

Homage to the Spanish

Book review of The Spanish Holocaust by Paul Preston

March 27, 2012

Books·History

Paths to Democracy, Catholic and Secular

Setting the tone of Catholic political thought for three centuries, it is in France where one uncovers the roots of the separation of Church and State

February 21, 2012

Critique·History·Politics

Queen who Let Daylight in on Royal Magic

Book review of Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset

February 21, 2012

Books·History

Trials of Windsor Life

Book review of The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney

February 21, 2012

Books·History

Dodgy Medieval Dossiers

Book review of The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe by R. I. Moore

February 21, 2012

Books·History·The Catholic Church

Don’t Mention the War

Book review of The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

December 20, 2011

Academia·Books·History

It Was All Rot About All Souls

Book review of All Souls and the Wider World edited by S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden

December 20, 2011

Academia·Books·History

Oh, What a Lovely War

Nostalgia for the war runs deep in our cultural memory; Matthew Sweet's new book shows why

November 22, 2011

Culture & Anarchy·History

Conscience is not for Conservatives

Book review of The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris

November 22, 2011

Books·History·UK Politics

Those Damned Papists Again

Book review of The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson

November 22, 2011

Books·History·The Catholic Church·The Church of England

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